Lexical Summary latash: to hammer, sharpen, whet Original Word: לָטַשׁTransliteration: latash Phonetic Spelling: (law-tash') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to hammer, sharpen, whet Meaning: to hammer out, to sharpen Strong's Concordance instructor, sharpen, whet A primitive root; properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. To sharpen -- instructer, sharp(-en), whet. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3913. latash [לָטַשׁ] verb hammer, sharpen, whet (Late Hebrew id., hammer, tap; Aramaic לְטַשׁ, sharpen; Arabic strike, tap); — Qal Imperfect יִלְטוֺשׁ Job 16:9; Psalm 7:13; Infinitive construct לֵלְטוֺשׁ 1 Samuel 13:20; Participle לֹטֵשׁ; — 1 hammer, only Participle = hammerer followed by כָּלתֹֿרֵשׁ Genesis 4:22 (J). 2 sharpen sword חֶרֶב (accusative) Psalm 7:13; compare 1 Samuel 13:20, object מַחֲרֵשָׁה קַרְדֹּם, אֵת, מַחֲרֶשֶׁת,; figurative ׳ל לִי עֵינַיִם Job 16:9 my foe whets his eye for me Pu`al Participle מְלֻטָּשׁ תַּעַר Psalm 52:4 a sharpened razor (in simile of evil tongue). |
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